xiv CONTENTS 



CHAPTER XXXV. 



FULL SUMMER AT LAST. 



Trip Across the Yenesei— Lost in the Forest— Second Visit to the other Side of 

 the Yenesei — Number of Birds— Striped Squirrels— Gulls in Trees— A New 

 Bird— The Ibis —Song of the Yellow-browed Warbler— Ostiak Fishing Season 

 — Observations made across the Kureika— Nest of the Little Bunting — Eastern 

 Stonechat — Another Round in the Forest — Von Gazenkampf again — A System 

 of Plunder — Russian Commercial Morality .... Pp. 353-368 



CHAPTER XXXVI. 



LAST DAYS ON THE KUREIKA. 



Birds begin to Grow Scarce — Absence of the Nutcrackers — Fertile Hybrids 

 between Hooded and Carrion Crows — Nest of the Yellow-browed Warbler — 

 Birds Plentiful in the Early Morning — Arctic Willow-warbler — Nest of the 

 Dark Ouzel — Second Nest of the Little Bunting — Leaving the Kureika — New 

 Birds Identified each Week — Parting with our Friends . . Pp. 369-375 



CHAPTER XXXVII. 



THE LOSS OF THE " THAMES." 



Contrary Winds— Aground on a Sand-bank — Ostiaks to the Rescue — Visit on 

 Shore — Nest of the Siberian Chiffchaff — Birds in the Forest — Under Way 

 again — Wreck of the Thames — Arrangements for the Future . Pp. 376-383 



CHAPTER XXXVIII. 



DOWN RIVER TO DUDINKA. 



Wild Flowers — Willow-warbler's Nest — Windy Weather — Tracks of a Bear in 

 the Sand — A Snipe's Nest — Nest of the Arctic Willow-warbler — The Captain 

 and His Crew — British Pluck and Blunder — On the Way again — Measuring 

 the Footprints of Swans — The River Bank — Purchasing Costumes of the 

 Various Races — Manner of Hunting the Sable — Coal from the Tundras 



Pp. 384-392 



CHAPTER XXXIX. 



FROM DUDINKA TO GOLCHIKA. 



The Tundra — The Dried-up Dudinka — Reception by the Birds — Variety of Birds 

 — The Chetta River — Samoyede Chooms — The Broad Nose of Tolstanoss — 

 Second Visit to the Tundra — Asiatic Golden Plover's Nest — A Night on the 

 Tundra — The Dunlin — News of Siberoff s Schooner — Winter in Siberia — The 

 Fishing Station — The King of the Samoyedes — Egg of the Red-breasted Goose 

 — Brekoffsky Island — Eggs of the Mountain Accentor — Various Eggs — Wearied 

 out — Ugliness of the Natives — Land on the Horizon . . . Pp. 393-404 



